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Using these kind of game metaphors just shallowly rationalizes something of far more importance, IMO. Legal or not, a country was worse off because of his direc

Using these kind of game metaphors just shallowly rationalizes something of far more importance, IMO. Legal or not, a country was worse off because of his direct and deliberate actions.

AndrewBissell 12y ago
No, the country was worse off because of its government's decision to prop up the currency in an unsustainable way. Soros just happened to be the instrument by which the market finally clobbered England over the head. It could have been some other speculator or group of speculators, and it could have played out over a longer time period (possibly at even greater loss to the British public), but it would have happened sooner or later.
justin66 12y ago
> Legal or not, a country was worse off because of his direct and deliberate actions. You're talking about the Chancellor of the Exchequer who decided it was rational to keep pouring money into the other side of the trade Soros was making, I hope.
kansface 12y ago
"a country was worse off because of his direct and deliberate actions" The country was worse off because its fiscal policy, determined via politics, amounted to a completely untenable long term position. An epic disaster was the only possible conclusion.
- craigjb 12y ago
  Well I'm glad someone made the entire country pay for the Chancellor of the Exchequer's decisions.
  - guard-of-terra 12y ago
    Didn't you, I don't know, elect them? Who is there to blame?